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> It's more than aesthetics. Putting a non-commercial license on works, especially software, is a death knell. I disagree. If you don't do that and Amazon kill
by eloff 5y ago
> It's more than aesthetics. Putting a non-commercial license on works, especially software, is a death knell.
I disagree. If you don't do that and Amazon kills your business model as a result, you now have to fire all your developers and abandon the software. Now that's a death knell!
I'm happy to use open source licenses for hobby software that I may or may not continue maintaining. For anything I hope to build a business around, I would never consider an OSI license anymore in this new cloud world. Amazon basically killed that open source business model.
- phkahler 5y ago>> I'm happy to use open source licenses for hobby software that I may or may not continue maintaining. For anything I hope to build a business around, I would never consider an OSI license anymore in this new cloud world. Amazon basically killed that open source business model. There is the AGPL, but that isn't compatible with the majority of Free Software out there.
- eloff 5y agoThe AGPL is also insufficient to protect your business from cloud providers (although it does grant more protection than the others.)